Students come to school to learn.
In your quest to educate students, you and other teachers just like yourself, will face many challenges in today’s classroom. Among other things, teachers will have to contend with overcrowded classrooms, reduced budgets, students misbehaving and being disrespectful, diverse learning abilities, and digital distractions. Many new teachers do not succeed in the first two years of teaching due to poor classroom management. These teachers may have forgotten or do not know the essentials of running a smooth classroom,maintaining appropriate and consistent discipline and the overall pressures of teaching. teaching is a complex profession and teachers are expected to know content and pedagogy, while being able to develop engaging lessons that meet the needs of diverse learners. While there are many different types of classroom management approaches, ultimately teachers must use the approach that works for them and the students they teach.
Without a doubt, behavioural problems can seriously influence the entire classroom environment along with the educational process and this can, and does, create problem relations and resentment between the teacher and the students. This essentially can lead to teacher burnout and lack of success.
Since behaviour management is one of the primary areas of concern for classroom teachers each year, it is important to understand and be able to implement.
Although sound behaviour management does not guarantee effective
instruction, it establishes the environmental context that makes good
instruction possible. Reciprocally, highly effective instruction reduces but
does not eliminate classroom behavioural problems (Oliver and Reschly, 2007).
During my practicum, I have been able to observe a variety of positive classroom
management ideas and their implementation in the high school classroom.
It is important from day one for the teacher to establish positive interactive routines. This helps actively promote a positive learning environment where the individual student is valued as a major contributor. By doing so, the teacher acknowledges all learning styles, and strengthens their teaching methods accordingly. A student that feels a sense of belonging or of value within their environment is less likely to disrupt and “act out” then those who receive no sense of acceptance.
In your quest to educate students, you and other teachers just like yourself, will face many challenges in today’s classroom. Among other things, teachers will have to contend with overcrowded classrooms, reduced budgets, students misbehaving and being disrespectful, diverse learning abilities, and digital distractions. Many new teachers do not succeed in the first two years of teaching due to poor classroom management. These teachers may have forgotten or do not know the essentials of running a smooth classroom,maintaining appropriate and consistent discipline and the overall pressures of teaching. teaching is a complex profession and teachers are expected to know content and pedagogy, while being able to develop engaging lessons that meet the needs of diverse learners. While there are many different types of classroom management approaches, ultimately teachers must use the approach that works for them and the students they teach.
Without a doubt, behavioural problems can seriously influence the entire classroom environment along with the educational process and this can, and does, create problem relations and resentment between the teacher and the students. This essentially can lead to teacher burnout and lack of success.
Since behaviour management is one of the primary areas of concern for classroom teachers each year, it is important to understand and be able to implement.
Although sound behaviour management does not guarantee effective
instruction, it establishes the environmental context that makes good
instruction possible. Reciprocally, highly effective instruction reduces but
does not eliminate classroom behavioural problems (Oliver and Reschly, 2007).
During my practicum, I have been able to observe a variety of positive classroom
management ideas and their implementation in the high school classroom.
It is important from day one for the teacher to establish positive interactive routines. This helps actively promote a positive learning environment where the individual student is valued as a major contributor. By doing so, the teacher acknowledges all learning styles, and strengthens their teaching methods accordingly. A student that feels a sense of belonging or of value within their environment is less likely to disrupt and “act out” then those who receive no sense of acceptance.
“When we enter into understanding human needs and
relationship
driven teaching, amazing things can
happen”
(Rogers and Renard, 1999).